Tips to Choose Lower-Fat Foods

Here's a little help on Tips to Choose Lower-Fat Foods. It's all from the Diabetic Living On Line website.




Tips to Choose Lower-Fat Foods
Watching your fat intake? Keep these better choices in mind when strolling the grocery aisles. You'll be

surprised by where you can reduce fat (hint: chocolate chip cookies make the cut).




Ways to Cut Fat
Looking to cut the amount of fat you eat? We've got simple swaps and eat-out tips that can help you make the healthiest choices at breakfast, dinner, and every munch in between. These tips save you calories, too -- fat has about 9 calories per gram, so reducing fat can quickly cut calories.

Note: The fat grams shown in the following slideshow were gathered from packaged-food labels and U.S. Department of Agriculture nutrition data. Averages were used when multiple samples were used.

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Choose Hummus Over Cream Cheese
Choose: 2 tablespoons purchased hummus (2 g fat)

Skip: 2 tablespoons regular cream cheese (10 g fat)

Cream cheese has five times more fat than hummus -- yikes! Hummus is mostly chickpeas, also called garbanzo beans. Hummus usually contains a bit of healthy fat from sesame seed oil or olive oil. Cream cheese contains a lot more fat, and some is unhealthy saturated fat. Eating half of a whole wheat bagel with 1 tablespoon of hummus adds 1 gram of fat.

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